Bad Dads Film Review

• Midweek Mention... The Matrix

  You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we take the red pill and tumble down the rabbit hole into the genre-defining cyberpunk classic that is The Matrix (1999). Prepare for slow-mo shootouts, existential dread, and the most influential sunglasses in cinema history.Written and directed by the Wachowskis, The Matrix dropped like a black-leather-clad bomb on the sci-fi landscape in 1999 and changed the game forever. Keanu Reeves stars as Neo, a disillusioned computer hacker who learns that his reality is a simulated construct designed by sentient machines to subjugate humanity. Waking up to the "real world" — a dystopian nightmare where humans are harvested for energy — Neo is recruited by the mysterious Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and the fiercely cool Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) to help fight back.The plot may be straight out of a philosophy seminar, but it’s delivered with style, intensity, and more bullet-time than you can dodge.It turns out the dads still know kung fu. Revisiting The Matrix was a treat — we all had memories of our minds being blown by it the first time around, and it's still astonishing how well it holds up. While the sequels sparked debate, this original entry is tight, clever, and endlessly entertaining. A particular highlight was rediscovering how well the film balances its heady concepts with genuine emotion and momentum.We couldn’t help but chuckle at the turn-of-the-millennium cool factor, but there’s no denying that The Matrix still feels cool — and crucially, smart. It walks the line between popcorn blockbuster and brainy thriller with serious finesse.The Matrix remains one of the most influential films of the last 30 years. It changed action cinema, reshaped science fiction, and made philosophy sexy — all while kicking ass in slow motion. Whether you’re here for the kung fu, the coding metaphors, or just to watch Agent Smith get punched in the face, there’s always a reason to plug back in.💊🖥️⛓️👨‍👧‍👦🍿We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

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• Hot Fuzz

  You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we lock, stock, and double-tap our way into the gloriously over-the-top world of Hot Fuzz (2007), the second film in Edgar Wright’s beloved Cornetto Trilogy. With an outrageous body count and a razor-sharp script, it’s a love letter to action movies — by way of twee English village life.Directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg, Hot Fuzz stars Simon Pegg as Nicholas Angel, a no-nonsense London supercop who’s so good at his job that he’s making everyone else look bad. As a result, he’s reassigned to the sleepy village of Sandford, where crime seems suspiciously low — and the residents suspiciously Stepford.Teamed up with the bumbling but big-hearted PC Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), Angel initially struggles with Sandford’s slower pace — until a series of grisly “accidents” reveals something darker lurking beneath the surface. Cue a rampage of pensioners, hidden agendas, and a spectacular finale with more gunfire than the M25 at rush hour.This is one we could all agree on: Hot Fuzz is a near-perfect comedy that rewards repeat viewings. It’s cleverly constructed, endlessly quotable (“The greater good!”), and absolutely packed with details that make it a joy to dissect. Whether you’re a fan of action movies, British humour, or seeing Timothy Dalton with a smug smile and a hedge trimmer, there’s something here for you.Hot Fuzz takes the quiet menace of rural England and sets it ablaze with blockbuster spectacle and sharp comedy. It’s both homage and original, firing on all cylinders from start to finish. If you like your action with a side of Bakewell tart and local shop for local people energy, this one’s a must-watch.🚔🧨🌳👮‍♂️👨‍👧‍👦🍿We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

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• Midweek Mention... Machine Gun Preacher

  You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we take a look at the explosive and controversial biopic Machine Gun Preacher (2011), directed by Marc Forster and starring Gerard Butler. It’s the story of one man’s radical transformation from violent criminal to war-zone humanitarian — and yes, it’s exactly as subtle as it sounds.🎬 Main Feature: Machine Gun Preacher (2011)Gerard Butler stars as Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds religion, cleans up his act, and then takes on a much bigger mission: fighting warlords in Sudan to protect orphaned children. It’s an incredible true story — emphasis on incredible — based on Childers' memoir Another Man’s War.Childers, after a spiritual awakening, travels to East Africa and builds an orphanage on the frontlines of a brutal civil war. As he witnesses the atrocities committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), he becomes increasingly militant, armed with both a Bible and a machine gun. The film asks: Can violent action be justified in the name of good?This one left us mixed. There’s no denying the story’s power — a man tries to make good by fighting evil in its rawest form. But the film’s lack of subtlety, uneven pacing, and one-note characters made it tough to connect emotionally. It wants to be gritty and spiritual at the same time, but often ends up caught between a sermon and a shootout.Still, there’s something undeniably compelling about the real-life Sam Childers, and the movie does manage to provoke thought, even if it doesn’t always land gracefully.Machine Gun Preacher is part faith-based redemption arc, part action-revenge flick, and it doesn’t always reconcile the two. It’s bold, loud, and full of conviction — much like its protagonist — but whether it inspires or exhausts may depend on your taste for moral ambiguity served with automatic weapons.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

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• Only God Forgives

  You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we’re taking a neon-lit, blood-soaked trip through the moody underworld of Bangkok with Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives (2013). If you thought Drive was a stylish slow burn, this one cranks up the stillness, strips back the dialogue, and drops you into a hallucinatory revenge opera that’s equal parts mesmerizing and maddening.Ryan Gosling stars as Julian, a quiet, emotionally blank drug smuggler running a Muay Thai gym as a front in Bangkok. When his volatile brother Billy is murdered for committing an unspeakable crime, their monstrous mother Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas) arrives in town demanding vengeance. Julian is reluctantly pulled into a spiral of violence and surreal symbolism, facing off against Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), a sword-wielding police lieutenant who dispenses his own brutal, godlike justice. Refn drenches the screen in glowing reds and deep shadows, pairing every scene with an eerie, droning score from Cliff Martinez. The film is light on plot and even lighter on dialogue—Gosling speaks fewer than 20 lines—but the atmosphere is thick enough to cut with a katana.Only God Forgives is a fever dream of a film—icy cold yet visually scorching. It’s like a revenge thriller that’s been put through a Lynchian blender, leaving behind a hushed, haunted meditation on masculinity, vengeance, and judgement. If you want action, go elsewhere. If you want mood and madness, step right in.💥⚔️🇹🇭👨‍👧‍👦🍿We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

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• Midweek Mention... Hundreds of Beavers

  You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we're diving whiskers-first into the utterly bonkers, wildly inventive indie oddity that is Hundreds of Beavers — a film that may be about trapping furry woodland critters but ends up capturing something much rarer: pure, anarchic cinematic joy.Directed by Mike Cheslik and starring frequent collaborator Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Hundreds of Beavers is a near-silent, black-and-white slapstick adventure set in a surreal 19th-century frontier. It follows a hapless, hard-drinking applejack salesman (Tews) who finds himself stranded in a snowy wilderness and must learn the ways of the wild—specifically how to trap beavers—in order to survive, thrive, and maybe even win the heart of a fur trader’s daughter.What makes this film stand out isn’t just its lo-fi commitment to absurdity—it’s the hand-crafted world of practical effects, person-in-costume beavers, and cartoon physics that turn it into a live-action Looney Tunes episode by way of Buster Keaton.🧊 Why We Loved ItSlapstick Supremacy: Tews delivers a physical performance that channels Chaplin, Keaton, and even a little Mr. Bean. It’s a film where a single man getting smacked in the face by an anthropomorphic beaver trap is not just funny—it’s art.Pure Visual Comedy: There’s barely a word of dialogue, but it doesn't matter. The storytelling is crystal clear through a perfect blend of timing, performance, and imaginative visuals. It’s modern silent cinema done right.DIY Wonder: This is microbudget filmmaking at its most inspired. The inventiveness and sheer commitment of the cast and crew to an utterly ridiculous premise makes this a cult classic in the making.A Celebration of the Absurd: From farting outhouses to exploding traps to a cast of fully costumed beavers engaging in battle, this is a film that leans all the way into its nonsense, but never loses sight of structure or charm.Hundreds of Beavers is a joyous, gonzo achievement—a slapstick snowstorm of ingenuity, beaver costumes, and frontier lunacy. It doesn’t take itself seriously, but it seriously delivers on laughs, creativity, and heart. Whether you're a connoisseur of physical comedy or just want to see a man wage war against the local fauna in increasingly unhinged ways, this is a film that rewards the curious.It’s not just one of the most original comedies we’ve seen recently—it’s one of the most original films full stop. 🦫❄️🎬We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

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